Gordon Matta-Clark : anarchitect
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Gordon Matta-Clark : anarchitect
Bronx Museum of the Arts , In association with Yale University Press, c2017
Available at 9 libraries
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Exhibition catalogue
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect", held at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, November 8, 2017, to April 8, 2018, Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 4, 2018, to September 23, 2018, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, March 1, 2019, to August 4, 2019 and The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, September 12, 2019, to December 15, 2019
Exhibition checklist: p. 157-163
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing."---Gordon Matta-Clark
This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York. There he employed the term "anarchitecture," combining "anarchy" and "architecture," to describe the site-specific works he initially realized in the South Bronx.
The borough's many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark's raw material. His series Cuts dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of the ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with Conical Intersect, a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of 17th-century row houses slated for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou's construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark's practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics.
Published in association with The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Exhibition Schedule:
Bronx Museum of the Arts
(11/08/17-04/08/18)
Jeu de Paume, Paris
(06/04/18-09/23/18)
Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia
(03/01/19-08/04/19)
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
(09/12/19-12/15/2019)
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